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Like Mother, Like Daughter Mountain Brook Matriarch Cindy Robinson and Daughters Build a Legacy of Creativity By Emily Williams-Robertshaw
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egardless of whether she meant to, Cindy Robinson raised her daughters, Melanie Pounds and Anne-Emory Lockert, to be tastemakers. A Mountain Brook florist, Robinson raised her family in Tuscaloosa. She picked up her first experiences in flower arranging in her first home. Cindy Robinson, in “I just wanted flowers in my house,” Robinson back, with daughters said. “So, I started doing it. Melanie Pounds, far “As time went on, people started asking me to do left, and Anne-Emory flowers for them, but I never did it professionally.” Lockert, far right; While living in Tuscaloosa, she was asked by a and granddaughters representative of the University of Alabama to volunEmory, Parish and teer her time to arrange flowers for events. Serving in Anne Banks Pounds, that capacity, she began to see it as a career. and Elouise and “When I moved back to Birmingham, someone Seeley Lockert. told me to call Carole Sullivan,” Robinson said. She spent well over a decade working with Sullivan, the owner of the Crestline floral shop Lagniappe Designs, which closed in 2019 when Sullivan retired. “She had 12 to 15 other people who worked with her and See ROBINSON, page 11
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Katie Cornutt started making cinnamon rolls, based on her grandmother’s “old-timey” recipe, for her children PAGE 22